Certification Procedures

The Certification Council believes that goal setting is a very important part of the certification process as well as a prudent strategy for our professional conduct. We request that you take time and thought to setting goals for the certification process. Please read the manual/criteria very thoroughly before filling in the goal setting forms.

Look at each criteria carefully, fill in goals for each section if you feel it necessary. You may fill in one or more goals for each criteria or set goals for only one or two criterias. Please be realistic in your chances of achieving your goals.

On completion of the certification process, indicate in each section where you have set goals, whether the goals were achieved and how. If your goals were not achieved, please indicate what strategies you have set in place to help you reach your goals.

Please read the following goal-setting questions and answer each one on the following spaces (you may print this section out to use as a worksheet):

1. What, in your opinion, are your strengths as an early childhood educator?

2. What, for you, are the areas in need of improvement or growth?

3. What are your short term strategies to improve or grow in these respective areas?
("short term" being the duration of the certification process).

4. What are your long term strategies to improve and grow in these respective areas?
("long term" being longer than the certification process).

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This excerpt is from Certification Procedures, published by the Certification Council of Early Childhood Educators of Nova Scotia.

Posted by the Certification Council of Early Childhood Educators of Nova Scotia, July 1997.

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